History

Niall Ferguson Follows The Money To Tell The Human Story Behind The Evolution Of Finance, From Its Origins In Ancient Mesopotamia To The Latest Upheavals. T...

"At the heart of this sweeping tale of adventure, discovery and exploration is one woman's extraordinary journey, inspired by her love for a man she had not...

Warning!* This book contains the following: Unsafe use of powerful firearms in combination with explosives Cultivation of illegal crops Impressionable...

The Beak of the Finch tells the story of two Princeton University scientists - evolutionary biologists - engaged in an extraordinary investigation. They ar...

Traces The Story Of Former Slaves Thornton And Lucie Blackburn, Who Launched A Daring Escape From Their Slave Masters In 1831 And Became The Subjects Of A L...

It was a Nation exploding into civil war. In 1992, the collapse of the former Yugoslavia triggered an international armed conflict that would last more than...

Mike Curtis.Categories: Biographies & Memoirs Leaders & Notable People MilitaryGeneral

The Mountie may be one of Canada's best-known national symbols, yet much of the post-nineteenth century history of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police remain...

Book by Cederberg, FredCategories: History MilitaryWorld War II

A detailed guide to surviving history's most challenging threats, from outrunning dinosaurs to making it off the Titanic alive History is the most dangerous...

Seabiscuit Was One Of The Most Electrifying And Popular Attractions In Sports History And The Single Biggest Newsmaker In The World In 1938, Receiving More ...

Brigitte Gabriel. Includes Bibliographical References.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Politics & Government Specific TopicsTerrorism

Ingrid Carlberg ; With An Introduction By Kofi A. Annan ; Translated From The Swedish By Ebba Segerberg. Originally Published By Norstedts, Stockholm In 201...

He read the classics but he adored pulp science fiction. He had no academic credentials but he was a co-founder of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Ae...

We All Know Of Women Whose Accomplishments Have Been Ignored, Miscredited, Or Devalued. Women Are Too Often Shut Out Of Important Conversations, Relegated T...

Review\At once the most readable and the most original of living military historians."--The New York Times\It takes a disciplined and enormously well-read s...

"Courageous and inspiring."--Karen Armstrong, author of The Case for God "James Carroll takes us to the heart of one of the great crises of our times."--Ste...

National Bestseller  When prize-winning war correspondent Tony Horwitz leaves the battlefields of Bosnia and the Middle East for a peaceful corner of the ...

For The First Time Ever, A Navy Seal Team Six Sniper Chronicles How He Became An Elite Warrior And The Ferocious Battle That Nearly Cost Him His Life. Reach...

Edited By Paul Robert Magocsi. Slightly Different Versions Of Works Which Originally Appeared In Encyclopedia Of Canada's Peoples. Includes Bibliographical ...

in This Brilliantly Illuminating Group Portrait Of The Men Who Came To Be Known As The Founding Fathers, The Incomparable Gordon Wood Has Written A Book T...

Presents An Illustrated History Of War Through The Perspectives Of Leading Protagonists In A Resource That Shares Complementary Profiles Of Period Weaponry,...

As A Seal Sniper And Combat Veteran, Webb Was Tapped To Revamp The U.s. Naval Special Warfare (seal) Scout/sniper School, Incorporating The Latest Advances ...

"But even as the darkness and chill settle in, there is a glimmer of hope, a feeling of growing excitement. For the start of winter also means the beginning...

By Pierre Berton. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 452-463) And Index.Categories: Travel United States New YorkNiagara Falls

Randall Whitcomb. Includes Index. Includes Bibliographical References: P. 265-268.Categories: History MilitaryAviation

Discusses The Nobel Institution In Detail, Telling About The Award And Its Beginnings, What It Means To Win A Nobel Prize, The Fields In Which It Is Present...

From the author of Masters and Commanders, Andrew Roberts' The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War has been hailed as the finest single-volu...

In 1982, 16-year-old Marina Nemat was arrested on false charges by Iranian Revolutionary Guards and tortured in Tehran's notorious Evin prison. At a time wh...

Heaven is for real, and you are going to like it! Colton Burpo came back from his trip to heaven with a very important message: Jesus really, really loves ...

The one hundred conspiracy theories of all time-from Harold Wilson as a Soviet agent to Princess Diana's death, from the attacks on 9/11 in the U.S. and on ...

A curriculum guide to accompany The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome, by Susan Wise Bauer. Susan Wise Bauer’s...

This clear and comprehensive history of French society—from the age of the Enlightenment to the present — offers balanced coverage of major political, s...

Edited By Bryan D. Palmer & Joan Sangster. Includes Bibliographical References. Also Available Via The World Wide Web.Categories: HistoryHistorical Stud...

People, Places and Times is a 2-volume social history reader that was developed to combine primary and secondary sources resulting in a totally unique resou...

From the #1 national bestselling author of Befriend and Betray, an intimate exposé of a criminal empire and the massacre that nearly started a global biker...

The third edition of A History of the Canadian Peoples is a skillful condensation of the acclaimed two-volume history by J. M. Bumsted. In a single volume...

Desmond Morton, One Of Canada's Most Highly Respected Historians, Is Keenly Aware Of The Ways In Which Our Past Informs Our Present, And In One Compact And ...

Through Twenty-five One-day Train Trips, The Author Describes Outings Spanning Seven Hundred Years Of French History, Including Orléans, Versailles, Place ...

Tells The Interwoven Stories Of Two Men--hawley Crippen, A Very Unlikely Murderer, And Guglielmo Marconi, The Obsessive Creator Of A Seemingly Supernatural ...

192p white paperback, some notes in pencil to margins and inside back cover, otherwise clean and freshCategories: History MilitaryWorld War I

Introduction: The Other History: Motherhood -- 1. Miss, I Wish I Had Your Life: The Poor Of London And Their Chroniclers -- 2. There Is Meat Ye Know Not Of:...

Positioning race front and centre, this book theorizes that political violence, in the form of a socio-political process that differentiates between human ...

pull Up A Chair Or Gather Round The Campfire And Get Ready For Thirty Creepy Tales Of Ghostly Hauntings, Eerie Happenings, And Other Strange Occurrences ...

walter Stadnick Is Not An Imposing Man. At Five-foot-four, His Face And Arms Scarred By Fire In A Motorcycle Accident, He Would Not Spring To Mind As A Le...

New documents clarify the American government's role in the scandalous decision to scrap the Avro Arrow. Not since the Spitfire of World War II has an air...

Thou Shalt Innovate Profiles Wondrous Israeli Innovations That Are Collectively Changing The Lives Of Billions Of People Around The World And Explores Why I...

In Jonathan Van Ness' New York Times bestselling memoir Over the Top, he showed readers how the incredibly difficult moments from his life (surviving sexu...